Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on a Intel Celeron 700MHz and 256MB of RAM

Intel Celeron 700Mhz
256MB SDRAM
Nvida Geforce 8400GS 512MB
www.qvc.com/hp-pavilion-6830-...
#elderscrolls

[@WinXP_SP1]

If this gets 1k views ill attempt to beat the main story with this rig. Edit: Thank you for the views and likes! As promised I will attempt to beat this game on this rig, I will play at lower difficulty, I will try to beat it in one sitting. I did explore some of the open world and yea.....its going to be something. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKPQeWurnd-Al5Y it is done.

[@russellsanders4535]

You're gonna wish the algorithm hadn't chosen you..

[@idipped2521]

You're done. Nip it in the bud. You should just start filming now, 1k is gonna happen

[@PumninBake]

you fool

[@amylutece8533]

Please don't do that, it doesn't sound fun to do or watch 😅

[@PhantomBoy7]

2 days and already 700 views. I'd be thinking of a build if i were you ^^

[@qwopiretyu]

This is how pc games are meant to be played. Not max settings on the newest hsrdware, but barely getting by on an outdated rig

[@mteley]

Truer words were never said.

[@utfigyii5987]

That's the beauty of it, you play with what you have, and compromise everything in the name of getting what you call a playable experience

[@RetroPixelLizard]

That Ironicly still applies to today's triple-A games with no optimisations on launch.

[@jackthefrog80085]

My pc looking at me downloading the Witcher 3 again

[@thomasgraham5840]

From an emulation perspective, unironically this. If you want to replicate an experience as most people had it back in the day, this is the way to go.

[@cattysplat]

People forget, this is how it used to be back in the day. We loved every moment of it. Because it was even worse before that!

[@WinXP_SP1]

sometimes just had to make due with the hardware you had.

[@WretchedRedoran]

​@@WinXP_SP1 I wish people made mods like this for modern games.

[@RaTcHeT302]

Graphics: *Yes*

[@yolkonut6851]

I can feel my life force slipping away for every loading screen

[@bertranwalker6524]

Amen, brother

[@lapizza7175]

I like how the loading screen didn't even take that long

[@harleyhunt6073]

Can even happen in the modern day. Assassins Creed Valhalla on PS4 slim, lol loading screens could take 2 minutes, compared to PS5 it's horrific!

[@AshleyPomeroy]

It's like playing Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 - which also had 256mb of memory.

[@apparatushappy736]

This needs to be a speedrun category

[@WinXP_SP1]

celeron%

[@WlyChess]

fewest total frames, any%

[@WinXP_SP1]

@@WlyChess I did submit the video on Speedrun.com, but the video was declined.

[@temari2860]

I fast forwarded 2 minutes to get into gameplay and was staring at a frozen frame thinking "damn, that's really slow". Then I decided to skip some more to see at least another frame I realized the video was paused.

[@ivewonyhk21]

This is how Skyrim runs on my laptop.

[@WinXP_SP1]

I actually tried to see if Skyrim would work, but wouldn't launch due to low memory.

[@ivewonyhk21]

@@WinXP_SP1 not a surprise there XD

[@deesnutz42069]

@@WinXP_SP1 just download some more RAM

[@oliviafalk5879]

my mom used that desktop background on our home pc when I was a child in the early 2000's. she died almost 2 years and this reminded me of her :(

[@frogman72davitto94]

I'm so sorry 😔

[@darukineo]

The character?

[@ARokanten]

No wonder with desktop background like that...

[@TheAilmam]

M8 have some respect....

[@ShadowsandCityLights]

You mean one of the default backgrounds.

[@santana2358]

Some random fool told me once nobody should play games on notebooks, he doesn't know how true gamers are: if the machine runs, it is supposed to be played.

[@zoltier]

Fascinated by how there are simply no shadows whatsoever

[@WinXP_SP1]

Shadows may be elusive, but they can never escape the light of day.

[@hohohodrigues]

no shadows, no shaders, no lighting, all you get are polygons, pixels and textures

[@RaTcHeT302]

lighting is for NERDS

[@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn]

the fact that this game even runs and doesnt just die immediately due to a memory exception or something like that is astonishing in itself.

[@Axodus]

This is because programmers actually did their jobs, nowadays they don't even do basic compression on textures, they leave it all raw.

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

It's because this game was designed for ps3 and 360, and the ps3 and 360 had only around 512 mb of ram, so this PC with 256 mb of ram and 512 mb of vram has more than enough memory for the game at console like settings. The lag is coming from the week cpu and outdated gpu.

[@nickyninetoes8577]

This is like content aimed directly at me. this is exactly my type of thing

[@frogodess]

Me too!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Look up the Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2 stuff

[@_Cetarial]

This is what playing Skyrim on PS3 felt like.

[@derekchirinos5629]

Unless you had a huge save file, it played fine most of the time

[@Bjarmid]

Oh my goodness this brought me back! I had an old 2004 hand-me-down windows XP machine when Oblivion came out, and I remember having to install a program to force the graphics lower to optimize fps. It looked exactly like this with that completely flat lighting! I had forgotten about that, thanks for uploading this.

[@nora-bee]

Was it Oldblivion? I remember researching a way to get my dinosaur late 90s budget PC and coming across that. I bought a 360 instead 😂

[@Bjarmid]

@@nora-bee Yes! That sounds right

[@ChaotiX1]

it plays flawlessly for a 2006 title, even with potatoe settings

[@WinXP_SP1]

GPU is doing all the heavy lifting, but yes

[@akkakushiji5264]

Eastern europe 2000 kids will probably cry for a bit. (As i do)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Why Oblivion when you can play Gothic

[@Toxin___InterHalfer]

@@HappyBeezerStudiosew nobody stooped that low

[@ArniesTech]

​@@Toxin___InterHalferGothic series was my childhood and to this very day I play it actively 😂

[@Toxin___InterHalfer]

@@ArniesTech 😒

[@jake_leg]

This exact experience is what taught me that computers had different parts that needed to be upgraded

[@heusstefan4075]

I swear to god i thouth my internet was just lagging after 10 seconds

[@karma6061]

good god it looks perfect!

[@lcfe7436]

这让我想起了我的童年，尽管它不完美，但浪漫的回忆往往比现在更让人向往。

[@vulcanitu2578]

Bing chillin

[@lcfe7436]

@@vulcanitu2578 😅how old are you kid?

[@vulcanitu2578]

@@lcfe7436 tf is your problem

[@lcfe7436]

@@vulcanitu2578 You replied "bingchilin" to me after reading the Chinese language, which makes you look like a robot. It is very disrespectful for a concrete rather than abstract and unfamiliar person to make such a joke.

[@vulcanitu2578]

@@lcfe7436 robot? wtf. Can't you be more of a crybaby?

[@Garroh]

This is pretty close to my first experience with Oblivion. My laptop was so bad in 2007 that I had to install Oldblivion to make it work. That was when Oblivion’s graphics were state of the art

[@JediMediator]

Many, many years ago, I was so determined to play Oblivion on my home PC that I downloaded something called "Oldblivion" that forced the game to look just like this. It was the only way the game would run at all. Those were the days!

[@TannyWanny]

i played with a huge intergraded graphics laptop back in the day. MEMORIES!

[@rustylasagna]

No joke, I have that wallpaper on my desktop right now. God, I wish I was on a beach now… playing Oblivion, obviously.

[@jackieboyborden]

Honestly something about Oblivion makes more sense on the lowest possible settings

[@markmartin2819]

The ps3 port of Oblivion ran on 256mb of ram though.

[@WinXP_SP1]

True, but the Ram in this machine is from 2000. The ram in the ps3 is six years newer. PS3 ram would be faster and just overall better. www.qvc.com/hp-pavilion-6830-w-celeron-700mhz%2C-20gb%2C-monitor-%26-printer.product.E101960.html That is the PC I am using.

[@cattysplat]

PS3 ports almost universally ran like trash too.

[@jackmackenzie8870]

PS3 oblivion is also just about the most infuriating game I've ever played

[@ImperialDiecast]

omg i had that exact background on my pc back in the mid 2000s. i believe it was from a set of wallpapers that came with windows xp

[@WinXP_SP1]

You're correct

[@ravenstrongwinds6777]

Ah the potato is potatoing. I love it so much, the way the rooms load and unload right in front of you. it's gorgeous. It doesn't even look like the shaders are even attempting to load lmao

[@tatuira93]

As soon as the game starts I thought "Holy shit, it actually runs at a stable 60 framera-" Then you turned around.

[@oneblacksun]

Reminds me of Half Life 2 with full bright turned on.

[@edplat2367]

That beautiful texture pop-in.

[@CaptScrotes]

You always knew you were in for a bad time when the opening credits lagged 😅🎉

[@YoYoknots]

This looks so crunchy, I love it.

[@Knobbler]

This is the way you're supposed to play the game. Todd Howard shed a single tear in heaven.

[@BananaGatorProds]

Watching at 240p for maximum authenticity

[@TheAnhedonicOne]

Shadows: *non-existent*

[@Tabmaster94]

This takes me back

[@Talondrone]

I have never in my life seen Oblivion run like this, but It resonates with me on a spiritual level. Reminds me of trying to get Skyrim running on an old eMachine I had as a preteen, all the janky workarounds - but you worked with what you had. Good times.

[@frogdeity]

This was my Oblivion experience back in the day. I didn't mind it as a kid.

[@DaviAreias]

I remember there was a modded version called "Oldblivion" for lower specs, I had a bad computer so that was how I first played the game

[@WinXP_SP1]

Interesting, I was not aware about this mod. I didn't use any mods for my test or my playthrough on this rig.

[@mysteriumxarxes3990]

ah, just like by brother used to play. The caves were all lit and the world ground textrues were square limited, no blending transition

[@solomon5ty]

you just know this whole rig catches fire as soon as he makes it outside

[@DerBlitzReiter]

From Desktop to gameplay in less than 3 minutes and loading screens under 30 seconds? Truly the golden age of gaming

[@Gargamore]

oh this is beautiful

[@AvariceOverlord]

Reminds me of when me and my mam tried modding Oblivion back in 2008 and my Laptop could hardly even run this or World of Warcraft, but I never even cared because... well, it was Oblivion.

[@Suwako__Moriya]

>mam Cumbrian?

[@Resursator]

Wow. This video is a real gate into my childhood.

[@SilverX95]

Reminds me playing oblivion for the first time 15fps to 20fps on a bottom of the barrel slow hard drive on a Pentium 4.

[@windy8544]

this... unlocked... a memory...

[@bob_bobsen]

Bumping for the algo so you end up doing this

[@WinXP_SP1]

😱

[@stevewalsh1935]

This is exactly the experience I remember having the first time I played this game on my PC at the time.

[@bestintheworld4850]

I remember I first played using the “Oldblivion” mod because my old GPU couldn’t run HD graphics, over 15 years ago.

[@stellarzoneproductions]

incredible

[@ProjectBarcodeError]

wow, that draw distance XD

[@WlyChess]

The menus look great!

[@jakubolszewski8284]

Now ot looks beautiful.

[@juvidisciple]

goodness

[@legendofsonic3979]

Wow gaming is evolving at a rapid level. Cannot believe this is ingame!

[@Jakobos]

This is better than how I played it on my crappy laptop in 2007

[@TheDiazDarkness]

Ngl, this makes me miss windows xp

[@WinXP_SP1]

Could always load XP on a virtual machine :)

[@JacobNax]

You can't even open a browser tab nowadays without it using 250mb of ram

[@paveleduardobarzagadelapaz6292]

OMG I used to play this game like this on my first laptop, good old days. I didn't care about graphics, I was there for the story and the fun. Now, ten years later, I finally have a decent pc and I can play Oblivion at full but I miss those days haha

[@TallTapper]

it works

[@33connorkenway33]

Playable👍🏻

[@LiGTY]

bro i just witnessed my childhood the first sight of windows xp and the lagginess its juts oooweee...i miss it but at the same time I'm happy where I am lmaooo

[@maning04]

This reminds me of the days when I used to run crysis on our old low end laptop with an intel core duo and a geforce g105m graphics card. The game would struggle to run at the very low settings with a 800x600 resolution screen with a 30 fps max and a loud fan. :)

[@metazare]

All things considered, it looks and runs better than I'd expect.

[@WinXP_SP1]

The GPU is carrying.

[@JosephShemelewski]

Oblivion on gamecube

[@tubo_channel]

Rocking this game on max settings with gt640 + i5 3570

[@cevothy]

The dancing with the mouse while waiting for the game to load is the realest shit

[@phdonny]

can it run crytis

[@noha112]

What is crytis?

[@MonstertruckBadass]

@@noha112 it's a joke about if it can run crysis, a game that had damn amazing graphics for the time, and it it still most likely holds up today

[@WinXP_SP1]

I'll try to run Crysis at some point tho :)​@@MonstertruckBadass

[@bignumbers]

That 15 ft draw distance

[@hollylucianta6711]

My Xbox 360 had that exact same audio stuttering with the Bethesda logo. I always wondered what was behind it because it ran the rest of the game very well.

[@vadimc2144]

Good old days, man.

[@echelon2k8]

Had this running on an Intel Celeron 733MHz back in the day.

[@stirpsromanica]

I remember using this no-shadows mod on my Pentium E5200 PC without gpu! I would love to go back to Oblivion but its too old though. Can't wait for Skyblivion

[@WinXP_SP1]

Too old? Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. Don't need a mod to enjoy Oblivion.

[@stirpsromanica]

@@WinXP_SP1 I actually love old games, but Oblivion AI is too dumb, and the animations are extremely robotic. I could play Gothic, Deus Ex, and another stuff. But Oblivion, for those reasons, is just broken to me.

[@sicorange3]

Nice, I used the 8400GS inside an eMachine I owned (first PC) because the integrated wasn't much at all - I threw in an extra 1gb stick of ram. Celeron D / 1.5gb ram / 8400GS All I could play was CS:S, GTA:SA, and Left 4 Dead in its last days before I finally got a newer PC made for gaming. My version of L4D looked a lot like the graphics quality in this video! DX6 or some crap lol

[@X6800]

Reading the title alone all I could feel was PAAAAAAIIINN!!!

[@dizzythegreat]

This is an exact replica of how I played this game for like 5 years

[@Hi1w2]

i recently made a cool build for windows 2000, Pentium 4 2gz with geforce 6200 GT 256mb with 512mb of ram. runs game pretty solid

[@WinXP_SP1]

Very nice!

[@sillygreatjaggi7946]

Its just missing the sound of the computer struggling to boot it up lol

[@utherpendragon4741]

The struggle is real.

[@Hraktuus]

I did at least one full playthrough on settings like this.

[@WinXP_SP1]

Same, was it a fun experience?

[@Benni711]

It played pretty good considering the hardware. First time i tried playing i had to use a mod to nerf the graphics further than the lowest base settings just to get it to run.

[@WinXP_SP1]

Gotta thank that GPU, did all the heavy lifting.

[@Tydusis1]

Way different specs, but this reminds me of when my friends managed to get crysis to run on a computer on something that had no business doing so, and it basically looked not much better than this

[@WinXP_SP1]

I will try Crysis at some point, I do have a Pentium III 1ghz ready, but I want to try to do more with the weaker Celeron PC. There are videos of it running a on weaker Pentium III, but it is neat seeing PCs pushed to their limits running stuff that shouldn't run on it.

[@Tydusis1]

​@@WinXP_SP1I don't remember all the specs, but if you're curious, I remember specifically that it was some kind of HP machine with a Pentium 3, 1gb of ram I think, and an ATI 1550 card that fit in the PCI (not express) slot. It managed to get like 15 fps at best on the first level with everything to low, without using an optimizer program on the game

[@cattysplat]

Crysis is more about the physics and destruction engine than the actual graphics, which never looked particularly good outside of the beaches. It's what made the gameplay unique from other FPS.

[@creechamop3593]

ah mat fullbright on and low res oblivion, brings me back thanks

[@samholdsworth420]

Holy shit.... Everest. Nostalgia flood 😂

[@09666slayer]

lets make this happen

[@RaTcHeT302]

IT WILL LOAD... EVENTUALLY

[@Jarikraider]

Damn I wish it looked this good on Xbox back in the day.

[@Preston241]

Yes! My poor ass childhood trying to run AoE III on a discount Compaq. Truly the “uphill both ways in the snow” of our age.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

looks alright

[@flowermunchy]

it's charming

[@ellisarholaynore1157]

3:07 how did you get that idle pose?

[@WinXP_SP1]

I am going to assume since my fists weren't up yet.

[@pankapitan6215]

I remember when i first played oblivion i had 256 MB Ram, then upgrade to 768MB and game was a lot better.

[@mygetawayart]

mfs in 2006: THIS IS GROUNDBREAKING, SO LIFELIKE I CAN BARELY TELL THE DIFFERENCE

[@realkingofantarctica]

Runs better than Starfield on PC.

[@WinXP_SP1]

Good

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I've ran Morrowind on a Pentium 3, and that isn't too smoothly. And while the 8400 GS isn't an amazing card, pairing it with a tiny Celeron is cruel even for that card. And we need to see the outside. I want to know how low the draw distance can be set and how far the framerate can dive

[@WinXP_SP1]

I did the whole main quest on this rig. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKPQeWurnd-Al5Y here is the full 7 hours.

[@vulkath]

I would play the F out of morrowind, daggerfall, quake and thief on that rig. And since I'm an artist too I'd load up open canvas 6. I had a laptop for the longest time when I was a teen and those were p much the only games/art program I could play xD

[@BattleCattleSA]

1:04 I know this dance

[@bobobo1704]

bro , pudo tener el juego abierto junto con el programa para grabar , re genial

[@WinXP_SP1]

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